Home from Biblical Kingdom Of Israel Discovered on Haifa Coast

Arutz Sheva ^ | 3/7/11 | Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

[Eleutheria5]

A well-preserved, 3,000-year-old four-room house from the Biblical Kingdom of Israel has been discovered on Haifa’s southern coast by University of Haifa archaeologists.

They also found remains of a Persian city, dating back 2,400 years, and of a 1,500-year-old Byzantine town. The discoveries at the Shikmona Nature Reserve site involved what experts said was detective work, due to the site's having been excavated 42 years ago but since covered with garbage and earth.

Archaeologists from Haifa University re-examined the structure and were amazed to find that it had remained well preserved and is in fact the best-preserved "Four-Room House" dating back to that period known today.

"We had seen the structure in the old photographs, and were sorry that such a rarely preserved finding had disappeared due to neglect. We were not even sure that we would be able to find it again. It was practically a miracle that we managed to locate and uncover it and that it is still so well preserved," said Dr. Shay Bar and Dr. Michael Eisenberg of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa, who headed the excavation team.

Old photographs of the 1970s excavations show a house dating back to the 8th-9th centuries BCE, which is the period of the Kingdom of Israel.

The structure's design of a "four-room house,” the most common design for houses in that era, is characterized by the functional division of the structure into four living spaces: three positioned vertically and the fourth horizontally. The other four-room houses exposed to date have been found in relatively bad condition.

Detective work based on the photographs led the researchers to estimate the location of the house – and luck was on their side as they located the structure and also found it highly preserved. .....

[Eleutheria5]

Here comes the Waqf of Jerusalem with a bulldozer. No, that's the IDF, cracking down on illegal settlements.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ping!

[edcoil]

Great, something else thousands of years old they can fight over.

[Moose Burger]

For your consideration: 8th century BCE house, four rooms, cheap, a bit dusty, Haifa area.

[daniel1212]

An evidence of Israel possessing the land in ancient times must be covered up. Signed, Jimmy Carter.

[Eleutheria5]

No indoor plumbing. Archaeologists poking about. Palestinians claiming it was their grandfather’s picketing and throwing stones outside. Nice sea breezes.

[wally_bert]

Maybe it will show up in a future episode of:

[Eleutheria5]

Or how about This Old House fixing it up.

[Larry Lucido]

Just had 10 more mortgage payments on it.

[SunkenCiv]

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[wildbill]

Fixer-up. 4 rms. coast view. No Phillistines permitted.

[wally_bert]

Maybe we could start a series called This Really Ancient House. I just installed a celing fan a few minutes ago and so far there is light and smooth rotation. All because a cheap fan switch gave out.

[Eleutheria5]

That’s racism! Of course, the Phillistines didn’t sign leases, they just invaded.

[Natufian]

Just like the ancient Israelis.

[wildbill]

Actually I think it was a restrictive covenant for the sub-division imposed by the developer, God.

Those damn Phillistines are still trying to break the covenant with an action in Court this Sept. at the UN.

[Eleutheria5]

Yes, but G-d told us to do it, and made the Jordan split, the walls of Jericho fall, etc.

[Eva]

Why did they leave behind their homes, coins and and belongings. Why would they still be there?

[Eleutheria5]

Deir Yassin;-?

[Eva]

I was reading a history of the Jews and they actually have a record of Abraham’s purchase of land on which to bury his wife, Sarah and live on with his family. The problem is that the Muslims claim Abraham was one of them.

[Eleutheria5]

We both claim him as father, per the biblical account, and without contradiction. In America, Arabs call Jews who shop in their stores “cousin” and vice versa. Such amity is usually absent over here, unfortunately. But even so, we both share the shrine of his tomb and hold it sacred. But it’s segregated except during certain important holidays, such as Rosh Hashana, when it’s all Jooos! for the whole shrine, and Ed, when it’s all Arab.